The royal palaces of Cusco, the Inca capital, fell swiftly to the European conquerors, and a new Spanish colonial city rose on their ruins, burying or obliterating the Inca past. In more recent ...

On the morning of July 24, 1911, an enterprising lecturer-explorer from Yale University set off in a cold drizzle to investigate rumors of ancient Inca ruins in Peru. The explorer chopped his way ...

these "spiders" are seen scattered across the planet's hills as well as near a formation known as the Inca City, which was named for its gridlike network of ridges that resemble the ruins of Incan ...